muddy
adjective
abounding in or covered with mud.
muddies
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present tense formof muddy (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Nović’s habit of jumping from her life story at one age to another and then back again muddies the timeline as well as the reader’s understanding of what happened when.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
The first pull on Haaland muddies the waters.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
That story and all the thematic clones emerging in its wake center contradictory thought as heroic and easily imperiled because it muddies a convenient, consolidated prescription of how the world should work.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
It just muddies my heels, and then my heels muddy my skirts.
From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett
